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Definition of Boggy
1. Adjective. (of soil) soft and watery. "Swampy bayous"
Similar to: Wet
Derivative terms: Bog, Marsh, Mire, Mud, Muddiness, Quag, Slop, Sloppiness, Slough, Sogginess, Swamp
Definition of Boggy
1. a. Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land.
Definition of Boggy
1. Adjective. Having the qualities of a ''bog''; i.e. dank, squishy, muddy, and full of water and rotting vegetation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Boggy
1. marshy [adj -GIER, -GIEST] - See also: marshy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boggy
Literary usage of Boggy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.), Royal Society of Victoria (1903)
"The fine drift sand on this side suggests sedimentation from a river current,
which emptied into the eocene sea, near the present mouth of boggy Creek. ..."
2. British Phaenogamous Botany, Or, Figures and Descriptions of the Genera of ...by William Baxter by William Baxter (1835)
"Abundant in the boggy parts of Charlton Wood: Mr. W. CURT». ... In boggy and
shady places; also in springy places on the mountains; ..."
3. The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days by Andy Adams (1903)
"... CHAPTER XI A boggy FORD THAT night we learned from Straw our location on the
trail. We were far above the Indian reservation, and instead of having been ..."
4. Plant Life of Alabama: An Account of the Distribution, Modes of Association by Charles Mohr (1901)
"boggy margins of brooks. Mobile County, Fowl River Station, Grand Bay. April,
May: infrequent. ... ALABAMA: Central Pine belt to Coast plain. boggy woods. ..."
5. A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants: With an Easy Introduction to the by William Withering (1801)
"boggy and fenny grounds near Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire. ... Moist mountainous
heaths, especially in boggy ground, in Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Westmoreland ..."
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